Xiaoyong Zheng, professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University, will give a talk, “The Unintended Consequences of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Sales and Prices of Beer Beverages,” at noon on Wednesday, March 25.
The Alumni Association chatted with Emmy-nominated meteorologist Cheryl Nelson, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences graduate, about her journey from Penn State to national broadcast news and beyond.
Fourth-year environmental systems engineering major Sofia Hoffman spent a month in Ecuador’s Amazon Basin researching contamination linked to off-the-grid oil extraction as part of Assistant Professor of Geography Belén Noroña’s research in the Yasuní National Park.
Penn State’s Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) has announced the winners of its 2026 Teach-a-thon. Liz Hajek, professor of geosciences, and Anastasia Piliouras, assistant professor of geosciences, received honorable mention.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 18 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University including Shannon Knudsen and Kayla Pedmo.
The inaugural Penn State-Ghana Research Partnerships Seed Grant Program has awarded nine projects including three researchers from EMS.
Shannon Speed, Paula Gunn Allen Chair and professor of American Indian studies, gender studies and anthropology at UCLA, will deliver the Penn State Department of Geography’s annual E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Endowed Lecture at noon on Friday, March 27.
Accurate air quality forecasts are critical for helping people limit exposure and for guiding regulatory action. However, a new study led by Fan Wu, a doctoral student in meteo, suggests some of the computer models that agencies rely on may not be getting it right.
Gretchen Watkins, board director at The Mosaic Company and former president of Shell USA and executive vice president of Global Shales, will give the 2026 G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture in Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State
Qian Zhang, a doctoral student in EME, has been awarded the Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate Fellowship in petroleum engineering by the Society of Petroleum Engineers Foundation.